The chart below shows the results of three surveys on absenteeism in a particular European country in the years 2000, 2005 and 2010. The results show the reasons people gave for not going to work. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The bar graph compares the reasons people of a European country gave for missing work, which were reported as the data between 2000 to 2010.

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it is clear that

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illness took up the highest percentage compared to other causes of not going to work in the three stated years and stress was the least among all

whereas

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it burgeoned later on its own. Diving deep into

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report of absenteeism in a particular EU state, being sick comprised about 44% in 2000 and it dwindled to 35% in 2010.

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not close, family responsibilities came second as to why these presented EU citizens did not go to work and

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also

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declined from 27% in 2000 to 25% till the end.

On the contrary

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, stress was about 6% in 2000 which resulted in employees being absent and the percentage fell to 5, but it jumped almost 3 times in 2010.

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, the point of personal needs for nonattendance at the workplace experienced a steady growth from approximately 13% in the beginning to around 23% in 2010.

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, unexpected problems like transport or weather saw fluctuations as in roughly 8%,

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with, went just about 14% in 2005 and

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came down again to more or less 12% in the end.